ASA Group Recognition Meeting Minutes
Oct. 9, 2008
Attendance: Keone, Rachel, Shan, Paul, Rishi, Nan, Zhou
We could do provisional approval of groups
- basically any group would be approved provisionally
- main things they would get: account at safo, room reservations
- they would not get funding
- not for most groups -- just for groups we're not sure about
- reduces continuity - different ASA board looking at application to
become group a year from now
- we'll keep this in mind as we look at the groups; see if this
mitigates the problems
Looking through apps in order they came in:
-- MIT Research association: 5-0-2 provisional
Shouldn't MIT be doing this (eg. UROP office?)
Would putting MIT's name on a mediocre journal do MIT harm?
Still feel like we should give them a chance
-- MMM A PIE: 0-4-3
-- Asymptones: 4-0-2 full
Rishi abstained because he's in the group
-- MIT Bakers: 5-1-0 provisional
Worried that ASA recognition wouldn't do anything for them, just be
donating baking supplies to Next House
But trying to be broader than a residence group
-- Roosevelt Institution:
haven't gotten back to us
-- Unite for Sight: 5-0-1 full
-- MIT Melodies: 5-0-1 provisional
Haven't been around, like the Asymptones
-- Kairos at MIT: 6-0-0 provisional
-- Sloan International Development Consulting: 6-0-0 full, contingent
on Sloan->MIT, open to grads, take out Sloan from name
-- MIT Rubik's Cube Club: 5-0-1 provisional
We'd like to see this happen, but they should prove themselves a bit
-- MITKNIT: 6-0-0 full
Been around for a year
-- MIT ROTC Association: 0-6-0
-- Next Act: 0-3-3
Rachel abstained because of participation in MTG
should not be called Next Act
should do production on campus, not Next House
-- Society for Women in Mathematics: 6-0-0 sponsored
-- MIT Students for Bhopal: 0-3-3
-- Horizon Music Club: 6-0-0 provisional
-- Syncopasian: 6-0-0 full
-- MIT Student Mentors: 5-0-1 provisional
not as localized as Next Act
the legitimacy will help, to eg. get rides from zip car
-- MIT Film Cooperative: 6-0-0 table
does Campus Movie Fest still exist?
-- HST GSA: 6-0-0 sponsorship recognition pending sponsorship
-- Camp Kesem MIT: 6-0-0 full
already done 2 camps
-- MIT Capoeira Angola: 6-0-0 full
-- Saudi Students Organization: 6-0-0 provisional, contigent
on several things
totals: 7 full, 8 provisional, 4 no. A handful tabled or postponed.
The groups we didn't recognize we don't want to sort of recognize
either; ie. we want them to go back and look at their stuff, so
sub-provisional recognition isn't right for them.
Database already has provisional/full distinction in place
Do we want to add a "fundable" bit to the database, allowing us to
recognize groups we don't want to fund?